political dissent

Examples of political dissent in the following topics:

• Forms of Disagreement

  • Political dissent refers to any expression designed to convey dissatisfaction with or opposition to the policies of a governing body.
  • Historically, repressive governments have sought to punish political dissent.
  • One form of political dissent is civil disobedience.
  • A common form of political dissent in terms of military service is conscientious objection.
  • Analyze the role that civil disobedience and direct action play as political tactics representing dissent

• The Anglican Class

  • The dissenters grew much faster than the established church, making religious division a factor in Virginia politics into the Revolution.

• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

  • By early 2008, it sought to run television commercials to promote its latest political documentary, Hillary: The Movie, and to air the movie on DirecTV.
  • A dissenting opinion by Justice Stevens was joined by Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, and Justice Sotomayor.
  • Stevens concurred in the court's decision to sustain BCRA's disclosure provisions, but dissented from the principal holding of the majority opinion.
  • The dissent argued that the court's ruling "threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the Nation.
  • John Paul Stevens wrote a dissenting opinion, arguing that the Court's ruling "threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the Nation. "

• The Supreme Court and the Burden of Proof

  • Of the three, the Supreme Court is supposed to be politically independent, and thus not wed to either the Democratic or Republican Party.
  • However, the nomination process itself essentially ensures that some partisanship, or allegiance to a political party, appears on the Court.
  • Justices are thus categorized in legal and political circles as being judicial conservatives, moderates, or liberals.
  • The part of the opinion that address the majority vote and the new law of the land is called the majority opinion, while the part of the opinion that describes the rationale for the minority voters is called the dissent.
  • You will frequently find opinions that contain several concurrences and dissents.

• The Asch Experiment: The Power of Peer Pressure

  • This result holds whether or not the dissenting confederate gives the correct answer.
  • As long as the dissenting confederate gives an answer that is different from the majority, participants are more likely to give the correct answer.
  • This finding illuminates the power that even a small dissenting minority can have upon a larger group.
  • Others have suggested that the high conformity rate was due to social norms regarding politeness, which is consistent with subjects' own claims that they did not actually believe the others' judgments and were indeed merely conforming.

• Nationalizing the Bill of Rights

  • Black called for the nationalization of the first eight amendments of the Bill of Rights (Amendments 9 and 10 being patently connected to the powers of the federal government alone), and his most famous expression of this belief is found in his dissenting opinion in the Supreme Court case, Adamson v.

• Theories of Democracy

  • In practice, democracy is the extent to which a given system approximates this ideal, and a given political system is referred to as a democracy if it allows a certain approximation to ideal democracy.
  • A purer form is direct democracy in which the voting public makes direct decisions or participates directly in the political process.
  • Under minimalism, democracy is a system of government in which citizens give teams of political leaders the right to rule in periodic elections.
  • The political arena should be one in which leaders and citizens make arguments, listen, and change their minds.
  • Democracy's role is to make visible and challenge those relations by allowing for difference, dissent, and antagonisms in the decision making processes.

• New Federalism and State Control

  • New Federalism is a political philosophy of devolution, or the transfer of certain powers from the United States federal government back to the states.
  • Unlike the eighteenth-century political philosophy of Federalism, the primary objective of New Federalism is some restoration of autonomy and power that the states lost as a consequence of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
  • Advocates of this approach sometimes cite a quotation from a dissent by Louis Brandeis in New State Ice Co. v.

• The Socialist Presence

  • Thus the Socialist Party strongly advocated universal suffrage, in order to politically empower the American proletariat.
  • The Socialist movement was able to gain some political strength from its ties to labor, however, corporations sought to protect their profits, and took steps against unions and strikers.
  • The government crackdown on dissenting radicalism paralleled public outrage towards opponents of the war.
  • Several groups were formed on the local and national levels to silence dissent.

• Peronism

  • The Argentinian political movement Peronism is based on three main principles: social justice, economic independence, and political sovereignty.
  • Peronism, or Justicialism, is an Argentine political movement based on the political legacy of former President Juan Domingo Peron and his second wife, Eva Peron.
  • The legacy and thought of Peron are thought to have transcended the confines of any single political party in modern times and blend into the broader political landscape of Argentina.
  • Peron’s ideas were widely embraced by a variety of different groups in Argentina across the political spectrum.
  • Claiming to be an embodiment of Argentinian nationality, Peron’s government often silenced dissent by accusing opponents of being unpatriotic.